The Stansted 15 were acting to uphold justice, not to contravene it. The state must not be able to use sweeping powers granted for the so-called fight against international terrorism to aid its agenda elsewhere.

I am a mother and being away from my daughter kills me slowly. Our lives matter more than the Brexit or political targets of reducing the number of asylum-seekers or immigrants that are in the country.

Death, suicide, self-harm – all of these are part of the DNA of detention; they have become normalised. Where else in our society would we consider death, suicide, and self-harm as completely acceptable outcomes of a working governmental institution?

The Home Office are not concerned with ensuring that protection is granted to those who are truly in need of international protection and that justice is done. They are concerned with winning. This ruins peoples’ lives.

So long as the Home Office fails to engage seriously with a case until it is in court, those without access to a lawyer will suffer serious injustice, as was recently exposed by the Windrush scandal. Meanwhile, millions of pounds are wasted in preparing and issuing cases in court, only for the Home Office to withdraw decisions which should never have been made in the first place.

To be stateless is to be a citizen of nowhere; to have no country which is bound to accept their return; it is to be denied the basic comfort of somewhere to call home. The Home Office can never claim to have a reasonable prospect of removal in relation to a stateless person.

An immigration detainee has taken the UK government to court for failing to instigate a public inquiry into the abuse he and others suffered at the hands of guards at the G4S-run Brook House immigration detention centre.